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Thought y'all would enjoy this thread.
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I love these movies, except the ones I don't love, and in the end I think they create a healthy skepticism of authority. I also think this latest one seems to be trying to be harshly partisan.
But kids don't learn these lessons the way their creators seem to think. In the end, these movies promote loyalty to friends, adventure, and fighting evil, all good stuff. And the visuals are without equal.
I completely agree. The "Galactic Senate" or whatever it was called was the total embodiment of the United Nations - hypocritical, inefficient and bloodly stinkin' useless.
When Padme's planet was being brought to its knees in Episode I, what did the Senate do? Not one thing except form a committee.
Anakin Skywalker was a SLAVE. His mother was a SLAVE. Pretty much every civilization that we encountered in THREE MOVIES was some sort of dictatorship. Where's all this "democracy"?
Is there ANY more elitist group in the history of the universe than the Jedi Council? They got what they had coming.
'More along the lines of "I like the Empire better than the new-agey wuss Rebels of Episodes I-III and VI."'
Glad to know there wasn't anything wrong with me years ago, when I wore a Darth Vader T-shirt & rooted for the "bad guys."
Honestly, even ignoring the massive yet insightful post above, the Rebel Alliance was made clear by George Lucas to have been directly based on the Vietcong. And quite honestly, I’m GLAD democracy was killed off in Star Wars. Even ignoring the flaws it endured that were demonstrated in the films, I know full well how democracy is inhuman and exceedingly brutal. Just ask the Jacobins and the other French Revolutionaries, or even the Communists, they’ll tell you, since they used democracy as a means to create violent anarchy upon killing their king.